Nomi Harris
Program Manager at Open Bioinformatics Foundation
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNomi Harris is a program manager and bioinformatics leader based in Berkeley with 18 years in program and project management and over 20 years of prior experience as a bioinformatics software developer. She coordinates a portfolio of multi-organization research projects at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, translating technical work into clear public communication and smooth collaboration across teams. An MIT computer science M.S. graduate, Nomi combines deep hands-on engineering experience—ranging from front-end contributions to the OBOFoundry website—to strategic conference and community leadership. Since 2009 she has chaired the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference and serves on the boards of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation and the ISCB, shaping open science practices and community governance. Her blend of technical fluency, long-term institutional knowledge, and event-running chops makes her especially effective at convening diverse stakeholders and turning open-source efforts into sustained community infrastructure.
18 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
New Providence High SchoolM.S., M.S. at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyA.B., A.B. at Princeton University
Github Skills (10)
html10
markdown10
web-development10
markdown-it10
ontology9
metadata6
annotations5
annotation-processing5
annotate5
javascript5
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
OBOFoundry/OBOFoundry.github.io
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
Metadata and website for the Open Bio Ontologies Foundry Ontology Registry
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:242 reviews, 160 commits, 163 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Nomi primarily contributed to the website's front-end, modifying the navigation bar and adding a new "About" page. They updated the site's navigation and made changes to the FAQ menu. They also performed several merge operations to integrate changes from the master branch, and addressed various issues by modifying HTML and markdown content.
ontologiesontology-registryobosemantic-webbioinformatics
berkeleybop/berkeleybop.github.io
Apr 2018 - Nov 2022
Homepages for the Berkeley BOP.
Contributions:22 reviews, 306 commits, 58 PRs in 4 years 7 months
berkeleyjekyllberkeley-bop
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